“In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. Horror” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“This time I did not have to question the source of his snarls and hisses, and of the fear which made him… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was travelling in a parched and terrible valley under… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The Lurking Fear: Shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined condors of purple fulgurous sky...… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“A certain atmosphere of breathless and unexplainable dread of outer, unknown forces must be present; and there must be a hint, expressed… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Kuranes had not lingered, but had plodded on as though summoned toward some goal. He dared not disobey the summons for fear… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should not hope to convey in mere words the unutterable hideousness that can dwell in absolute silence and barren immensity.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The oldest and most powerful emotion is fear... And the oldest and most powerful kind of fear is that of the unknown.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Certainly, the terror of a deserted house swells in geometrical rather than arithmetical progression as houses multiply to form a city of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“a new chill from afar out whither the condor had flown, as if my flesh had caught a horror before my eyes had seen… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“One can trace the relics of this former happiness in the trim shapes of the buildings, the occasional graceful churches, and the evidences of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.” — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“The vast marble dome of the State House stood out in massive silhouette, its crowning statue haloed fantastically by a break in one of… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen -… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Heaven knows where I'll end up - it's a safe bet I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
